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The Aiguilles d’Arves () is a
The Ascent of the Central Aiguille d'Arves
Aiguilles d’Arves Refuge
Alpine three-thousanders Mountains of the Alps Mountains of Savoie
The Aiguilles d’Arves () is a mountain
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in the Arves massif in the French Alps
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. The mountain, comprising three separate peaks (in French ''Aiguille''), is the highest point of the massif, and is located in the department
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Government and military
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of Savoie
Savoie (; Arpitan: ''Savouè'' or ''Savouè-d'Avâl''; English: ''Savoy'' ) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Southeastern France. Located in the French Alps, its prefecture is Chambéry. In 2019, Savoie had a population of ...
.
Geography
The summits that make up the Aiguilles d'Arves are described in the following table. For reasons apparent from the picture, ''Aiguille Septentrionale'' is also called the ''Tête de Chat'' (Cat Head).Ascents
The central peak of the ''Aiguilles d’Arves'' was first climbed by the brothers Pierre Alexis and Benoît Nicolas Magnin, from nearbySaint-Michel-de-Maurienne
Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne (, literally ''Saint-Michel of Maurienne''; frp, Sin Mestyé) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
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Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne has a ocea ...
, on 2 September 1839. As evidence they built a cairn and left two Sardinian coins under a rock on the summit.Benoît Nicolas MagninThe Ascent of the Central Aiguille d'Arves
The Alpine Journal
The ''Alpine Journal'' (''AJ'') is an annual publication by the Alpine Club of London. It is the oldest mountaineering journal in the world.
History
The magazine was first published on 2 March 1863 by the publishing house of Longman in London, ...
, Volume 18, 1895
The southern summit was first climbed by the Swiss mountain guides Christian and Ulrich Almer and their American client, W. A. B. Coolidge from New York. During the 1870s and 1880s, Coolidge claimed a number of first ascent
In mountaineering, a first ascent (abbreviated to FA in guide books) is the first successful, documented attainment of the top of a mountain or the first to follow a particular climbing route. First mountain ascents are notable because they en ...
s and worked extensively in the Dauphiné Alps. Earlier, the same party had climbed ''L’Auguille Centrale'' in 1874. On the summit, they found the cairn built by the Magnin brothers, but ascribed it to "a legendary chamois
The chamois (''Rupicapra rupicapra'') or Alpine chamois is a species of goat-antelope native to mountains in Europe, from west to east, including the Alps, the Dinarides, the Tatra and the Carpathian Mountains, the Balkan Mountains, the Ril ...
hunter". The day after their ascent of ''L’Aiguille Meridionale'' in 1878, Benoît Magnin informed them about his ascent 39 years prior.
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Aiguilles d’Arves Refuge
Alpine three-thousanders Mountains of the Alps Mountains of Savoie